HP, Composite Team To Improve Data Virtualization Middleware 
HP is working with Composite Software Inc. to deliver more agile enterprise data virtualization technologies for BI (business intelligence) and other high-value data projects. The partnership will focus on data virtualization middleware, real-time access and optimizing private/public cloud, company officials said.
Under the partnership, Composite and HP will design a physical data warehouse, a virtual data view -- or a combination of the two. The ability to combine virtual data integration with physical data consolidation will help save money and provide cost-effective and custom global access, company officials said.
A recent Gartner report notes the Data Integration software market (including data virtualization) will hit $2 billion by 2012, and grow at 17 percent per year.
“Together, Composite and HP have been trusted advisors for organizations needing to optimize information access,” said Christian Nall, EVP Field Operations of Composite Software, in a statement. “The combined expertise and technology offerings will allow organizations to derive even more business value from all of their information assets while reducing their information-related costs.”
This collaboration combines Composite’s data virtualization middleware and services with HP Business Intelligence Solutions to speed the delivery of real-time information, the companies said.
Composite and HP offer enterprise-class and industry-specific business intelligence solutions to help customers be more dynamic, …[achieve] faster time to value, reduce costs, and remain flexible to changing demands,” said Giuliano Di Vitantonio, who is in charge of alliances for HP’s Business Intelligence Solutions, in the statement. “
“A high-performance data virtualization server optimizes access to the data, as well as queries, federates, abstracts and delivers this data to the consuming applications,” said Robert Eve, Executive Vice President of Marketing at Composite Software in a recent blog posting. “Data virtualization middleware integrates data from multiple, disparate sources -- anywhere across the extended enterprise -- in a unified, logically virtualized manner for consumption by nearly any front-end business solution, including reports, portals, mashups, applications, search and more,”
HP and Composite Software have been partners on enterprise issues since 2008, when Composite certified HP’s Neoview Advantage enterprise data warehouse for its Composite Information Server in 2008.
Top Data Virtualization, Cloud Benefits
Composite’s Eve also notes these benefits to enterprise firms with data virtualization projects:
- Data discovery -- To simplifies complexity by automatically identifying relevant data and data relationships, thereby accelerating data model development and validation.
- Improved data access To provide data to consuming solutions as if it were available from a single virtual location, rather than where it is actually stored.
- Data abstraction -- To transform data from its native structure and syntax into reusable relational views and data services that are more easily understood by developers and more easily consumed by applications.
- Data federation -- To combine data from multiple original sources (e.g., transaction systems), consolidated stores (e.g., enterprise data warehouse) and external sources (e.g., cloud servers).
- Accelerated data delivery -– To leverage high-performance query, caching and other optimization techniques to provide consuming solutions with up-to-the-minute data, whenever needed.
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